Episode 59: What We Mean by Shared Governance with Lee Bebout

Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. 

Dr. Lee Bebout is back on the show (first featured in episode 13) this month to discuss an article he co-authored with Jeff for Inside Higher Ed entitled What We Mean by ‘Shared Governance’. The essay was published this week.

On the show, they discuss the conversations that led to the essay, their own experiences with shared governance and ideas for improvement of dynamics and practices between faculty and administration.

Lee is a professor of English at Arizona State University where he is also an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His research focuses on the areas of Chicano Studies and Whiteness. His most recent book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice is forthcoming from NYU Press, set to be released in October. His previous book, "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White" (NYU 2016), examines how representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans have been used to foster whiteness and Americanness, or more accurately whiteness as Americanness. We are happy to have Lee back on the show!

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